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Frank S:
I think what happened was I climbed out of the backhoe then stepped too close to the edge of the hole and the bank crumbled out from under me. it was just dirt and clay no rock I fell pretty much straight down my feet hanging on the bank flipping me face down when I landed on a pile of dirt chest first. It knocked the wind out of me and I laid there for a spell. After about 20 minutes I felt able enough to climb out my chest still hurt but thought was just the fall and having my wind knocked out. Instead of climbing back in the back hoe and driving to the house I walked the 200 yards once in the house my chest really started hurting again so I sat on the couch for a while. I told the wife what had happened and that I might have torn my old stint in my lad loose After a while I was feeling better so we loaded up in the truck and I drove the 15 miles to the hospital.
I walked in and told the ER folks what I thought might have happened things got real busy real fast my heart rate dropped to 16 almost as soon as they had given me some injection of something. they strapped a massager on me and 45 minutes later the ambulance had transported me 75 miles to the big city hospital 36 hours later I walked out with 2 new stints the old one that I had because of scar tissue build up around my LAD was not damaged.
I had to do almost nothing for a week because of the hole in my groin where they pusher the catheter up to my heart but other than that I've been doing everything if not more than I was doing before my episode.
Yes Our water tower is handy not as tall as I started to build it only 12 ft to the flat roof where another 12 to 1500 gallon tank will be installed there is 600 gallons in the level just under the roof so static pressure is not all that much but I can either pump it through the pump that supplies house pressure or attach a 2" gasoline pump at the fill connection
SparWeb:
OK now I'm picturing ways to add a big tank to my internet/TV tower...
Frank S:
Here is what my water tower looks like and how it was constructed
Frank S:
I'm not finding the other pictures just now will have to locate them and post them later
Any way the tower is made out of 2 7/8" oil field pipe for the legs braced and cross braced with 2 3/8 oilfield tubing.
concrete curbing was used as the foundation by placing the 5ft to 8ft long sections upside down in the ground the legs were anchored to with 1/2" anchor bolts then a 3" concrete floor was poured in side over the curbing blocks also covering the feet on the legs Steel mesh was welded to the legs and bottom braces and the ladder
3 2" black poly pipes were embedded to serve as conduits for the water lines and electrical. a transition box was burred just outside of the tower to go from 2 conduits to 1 4" conduit
I did this for a couple of reasons 1 gophers cannot eat through the 4" sch 40 pipe very easy whereas they can through 1" black poly and PEX because they are attracted to the vibrations of the flow of water. having the pipes inside the larger conduit reduces the transmission of the water sound. Also there is enough room in the larger conduit to up grade to larger water pipes should I desire. or even add another line without having to dig another trench its buried 3 ft and in some places 4 ft deep half the trench was hand dug a week before my heart issue and the rest was dug by me 2 weeks after my stints were put in.
Frank S:
A couple more
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